Wednesday
14 September 2022
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| 15h00 – 18h00 |
Meeting of the Board of Directors
registration and documents via member area of AECM’s website
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| 19h00 |
Welcome Reception
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Thursday
15 September 2022
Interpretation: EN, ES, FR, IT
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| 10h00 – 11h00 |
Meeting of the internal extraordinary General Assembly
registration and documents via member area of AECM’s website
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| 11h00 – 12h00 |
Meeting of the internal ordinary General Assembly
registration and documents via member area of AECM’s website
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| 12h00 – 13h30 |
Networking break
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| 13h30 – 15h30 |
Public session of the General Assembly
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| 13h30 – 13h45 |
Welcome & Opening
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
- Bernhard Sagmeister, Managing Director of the Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH (aws), Austria
- Doris Agneter, Managing Director of a promotional institution providing guarantees and participations to SMEs based in Lower Austria (“NÖ Bürgschaften und Beteiligungen GmbH“, NÖBEG), Austria
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| 13h45 – 14h15 |
Unlocking the future: SMEs’ resilient transition
- Kerstin Jorna, Director General, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission
- Luc Frieden, President, Eurochambres – the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry – tbc.
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| 14h15 – 15h25 |
The interplay of mutual, private, and public guarantee institutions for the benefit of SMEs
- Introductory speaker: Pablo Pombo, Founding President of AECM
- Examples of best practices moderated by Katrin Sturm, Secretary General of AECM
- Laurent Melin, President of the National Federation of SOCAMA, France and Christian Dubarry, Head of European and International Relations, Bpifrance, France
- Guy Selbherr, President of the Association of German Guarantee Banks (VDB), Germany and Johannes Heinloth, Member of the Board of Directors of the regional public promotional institution L-Bank, Germany
- Athina Chatzipetrou, CEO and President of the Hellenic Development Bank (HDB), Greece and Konstantinos Makedos, President of TMEDE – the Engineers and Public Works Contractors Fund, Greece
- NN, President of Assoconfidi, Italy – tbd. and NN, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Italy – tbd.
- Zenón Vázquez Irizar, Member of the Board of Directors of CESGAR, Spain and NN, Spain – tbd.
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| 15h25 – 15h30 |
Concluding remarks & end of the public session
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
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| 15h30 – 16h00 |
Networking break
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| 16h00 – 18h00 |
International conference
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| 16h00 – 16h10 |
Welcome & Opening
- José Fernando Figueiredo, Special Honorary President AECM with the special mandate for international relations
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| 16h10 – 16h30 |
From crisis to recovery: Optimal support of SMEs
- Martin Godel, Chair of the OECD Committee on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (CSMEE) and Head of Division, Small and Medium Size Enterprise Policy, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland – tbc.
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| 16h30 – 17h00 |
How to make guarantee institutions and SMEs sustainable
- Pietro Calice, Senior Financial Economist, Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank
- Henk Jan Reinders, Financial Sector Economist in the World Bank Group’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice
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| 17h00 – 18h00 |
The right transformation strategy for guarantee institutions
- Moderator: José Fernando Figueiredo, Special Honorary President AECM with the special mandate for international relations
- NN, Japan Finance Corporation (JFC) being member of the Asian Credit Supplementation Institution Confederation (ACSIC) – tbd.
- Nagla Bahr, President of the Euro-Mediterranean Guarantee Network (EMGN)
- Mohammed Al-Jafari, Coordinator of the Global Network of Guarantee Institutions (GNGI)
- Luz Stella Lozano, Secretary General of the Ibero-American network of guarantees association (REGAR)
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| 19h30 |
Gala Dinner
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Friday
16 September 2022
Interpretation: EN, ES, FR, IT
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| 09h00 – 15h30 |
Annual seminar on “Promoting structural change for a new sustainable Europe – Guarantees with a focus on start-ups”
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| 09h00 – 09h10 |
Welcome & Opening
- Bernhard Sagmeister, Managing Director of the Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH (aws), Austria
- Doris Agneter, Managing Director of a promotional institution providing guarantees and participations to SMEs based in Lower Austria (“NÖ Bürgschaften und Beteiligungen GmbH“, NÖBEG), Austria
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| 09h10 – 09h30 |
Keynote address
- NN, Minister, Austria – tbc.
Followed by an acceptance speech
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
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| 09h30 – 10h00 |
Accelerating the twin transition
- Mechthild Wörsdörfer, Deputy Director General, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission – tbc.
- Roger Havenith, Deputy Chief Executive, European Investment Fund (EIF)
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| 10h00 – 11h00 |
Panel 1: Financing the green and digital transition
- Moderator and introductory speaker: Lucia Cusmano, Deputy Head of the SME and Entrepreneurship Division, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD – tbc.
- Daniel Bouzas Luis, Regional Coordinator for Europe, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) – tbc.
- Uldis Kuplis, Head of IT Development, Development Finance Institution (ALTUM), Latvia
- Róbert Aradi-Beöthy, Senior Consultant, Green Financing, OTP Bank Plc., Hungary
- Lina Konstantinopoulou, Policy Director, Eurochambres – the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry – tbc.
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| 11h00 – 11h20 |
Networking break
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| 11h20 – 11h35 |
Main challenges and opportunities for innovative SMEs & start-ups
- Jean-David Malo, Director of the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), Directorate-General Research and Innovation, European Commission
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| 11h35 – 11h50 |
InnoRate – a European technology assessment tool
- Hee-Chang (Leo) Park, Director, Korea Technology Finance Corporation (KOTEC/KIBO), Korea
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| 11h50 – 12h50 |
Panel 2: Making SMEs fit for future
- Moderator and introductory speaker: Jiří Jirasek, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Národní rozvojová banka (NRB), Czechia
- NN, Korean Credit Guarantee Fund (KODIT) – tbc.
- Giovanni Zazzerini, Secretary General, INSME – The International Network for SMEs – tbc.
- Nicolas Tritaris, Senior Investment Platform Advisor at European Investment Bank (EIB)
- Besnik Berisha, Managing Director of the Kosovo Credit Guarantee Fund, Kosovo
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| 12h50 – 13h00 |
Group photo
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| 13h00 – 14h00 |
Networking break
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| 14h00 – 14h15 |
The InvestEU Fund: Benefits for SMEs, particularly for start-ups
- Giorgio Chiarion Casoni, Director, InvestEU and financial institutions, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN), European Commission – tbc.
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| 14h15 – 15h15 |
Panel 3: Financial instruments: EU support for a successful recovery
- Moderator: Gerhard Huemer, Director Economic Policy, SMEunited
- Astrid Bartels, Head of Unit, Access to Finance, Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), European Commission
- Andrea Bomhoff, Head of Unit, State aid — Financial institutions III, Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), European Commission
- Vincent van Steensel, Departmental Director – Porfolio Guarantees, European Investment Fund (EIF)
- Kiril Velitchkov, Director European Projects and Financial Institutions, UBB, Bulgaria, Manager of KBC Group European Financial Instruments Competence Centre – tbc.
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| 15h15 – 15h25 |
Presentation of the venue of AECM’s annual event 2023
- Marijana Oreb, Member of the Board of the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investment (HAMAG-BICRO), Croatia
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| 15h25 – 15h30 |
Concluding remarks & end of the annual seminar
- Guy Selbherr, President of AECM
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| 16h00 – 18h00 |
Annual meeting of the GNGI
– For members only –
- Approval of the agenda
- Approval and presentation of new members of the GNGI
- Nomination of the coordinator(s) of the GNGI
- Activity plan 2021 – 2022 / Topics for webinars / Ways to foster knowledge exchange
- Next meeting
- Any other business
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